Official Nomination

[Tiberius]

Redstar, is this OK for you? If yes, Vondrack is our official FA, we can start advertising him and he can start working.

Radek?

[quantum_mechani]

One slight modification to the nominations table, my preferred civ to be ambassador to is Gathering Storm.

[redstar1]

Sounds fair enough. New Military architect then?

[Spiffor]

I could be ambassador to Neu Demogyptica if no one else steps in

EDIT : Btw, being an old Evangelion fan, I have frequent contact with Apocalypse from LI. I don't really want to be an official ambassador to 2 different teams (plus Enlightened), but I can do it before we have true in-game contacts with these teams.

[Jack_www]

The Glory of War Foreign Minister Contacted me asking who our Foreign Minister was. I told him we are in the process of picking an abassador and Foreign Minister and that I would serve as the contact untill we get the postions finalized. I hope I did not step on any toes. As soon as we know for sure who will take these postions I will pm the foreign minsiter of the Glory of War and tell him who to contact, instead of me.

[Tiberius]

I'm glad everybody agree that my retirement from the competition is a good idea . So, the updated list (again):

OFFICIAL MINISTERS/AMBASSADORS:

President: Jack_www

Ministers
Military Architect: Redstar
Enlightened: Spiffor
Foreign Minister: Vondrack

Ambassadors:
Roleplay: Nimitz
Gathering Storm: quantum_mechani
Glory of War: ZargonX
Vox Controli: Odin

NOMINATION
VP: pending constituional decision, most probably appointed by the President from the ministers who own PtW. Until the Constitution is finalized, I suggest we name Vondrack, since he played a turn already in behalf of our team, thus practically acting like a VP

Ministers
Master Builder: ZargonX, Tiberius, quantum_mechani

Ambassadors
Lux Invicta: none
Neu Demogyptica: none

3 candidates: Imtoops, Colonel Kraken, Spiffor.
[Ming_style]Work on it, guys! [/Ming_style]

[Tiberius]

Quantum_mechani, you might want to know that the Ambassador from GS (DeepO) has arrived! He posted a polite announcement in our public forum. Go greet him in our behalf

ZargonX: Panzer32, the ambassador from GW has arrived, too He greeted us with a polite "I want ...". Hammer him!

[ZargonX]

Panzer32 is our GW contact? I'll make contact with their team tomorrow, and see what tone they decide to take to start things off. Don't worry, this brick won't bend!

Also, I second Vondrack for VP. He came through for us this weekend, for sure!

[Tiberius]

ZargonX, did you see the GW's starting position? They made it public and if it is true and not a bluff (which I seriously doubt)) it is ROTFL and we have nothing to worry about for a while!
The link: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=69616

[vondrack]

I am really glad to see the suggestion to appoint/elect me the VP - it's exactly what I was thinking about... Seriously, even though I originally considered becoming the Foreign Minister, I now tend to give up running for that post in favour of the VP (or a similar position). I will do my best to help redstar or anyone else elected the F.A. conduct our foreign affairs, but I feel that I could be more useful for the team, if taking care of other matters.

The reason is simple. We are lacking almost any organization. I thought that our President would mostly take care of organizing things, but I can see that Jack is busy with his RL, so it would be unreasonable to expect him taking upon the organizational duties. Besides, he has already managed to put us together as a team, which was a considerable feat.

What we desperately need is someone taking care of informing others about how the game proceeds, taking and posting screenshots, summarizing the stats etc. We also need someone to keep track of polls, maybe even putting together guidelines for the President and other Ministers to follow (based upon poll results). We DEFINITELY need a backup turn-player - the Sunday night showed that it may be a problem, if we have just one person authorized to play our turn and he/she (do we have any "she" in our team?) is not available during the set period of time (basically, 24 hours).

Considering all this and considering I am checking Poly very often (at least several times a day, but often several times an hour), often staying up late in the night (thus available for real-time chatting even for our US members), I hereby offer my services as a Vice-President or Chancellor.

Should I be appointed/elected, I have the following ideas to be implemented until the end of this week:[list=1][*] Set-up a (possibly topped) thread which will summarize all the polls, their status and possible results.[*] Set-up a (possibly topped) thread which will summarize our gameplay (something like a "Chronicles of Legoland"). It would have screenshots, descriptions of our moves/actions, plus summaries of any other relevant events happening in the game.[*] Set-up a (possibly topped) thread that would deal with our plans for future turns. This would be the place summing up all the information needed to play our turns. President or whoever would be playing the turn would find the "voice of people" there, members would be able to find the relevant information there without having to read through all the threads...[*] Set-up a (possibly topped) thread to be used as a place to decide/arrange on who is going to play our next turn(s). Primarily intended as a public "log" of communication between Jack/President and anyone else serving as his deputy as fas as playing turns is concerned. Using this thread, there should never be a situation that we would be uncertain who is supposed to play our turn... whether Jack shows up to play it, or whether his deputy or anyone else is supposed to play it. Any member of our team, checking this thread, would be able to tell other teams, what the situation is and who is supposed to play for us. This will not only help us prevent any disputes regarding this matter, but would also greatly improve out turn-around time, helping the demogame proceed faster.[/list=1]
The first three threads would be sort of "read-only" by a gentlemen agreement, I (or whoever might take the post of Secretary of State at a later date) would be the only one supposed to post in them, hopefully helping to keep them uncluttered and easy to follow. Each of them would have a corresponding "discussion thread" open to all members, serving as a place to comment the read-only thread, propose corrections, changes, improvements etc.

And the last thing: I would also be ready to play any turn Jack would not be available for. I hope I have already managed to get the grasp of handling PBEM games (technically), so I believe I would not screw anything.

I do realize that it's quite a lot of work and I may find out I will not be able to manage all that. I have some real life and business, too... In that case, I would still consider my duty to arrange with others to take care of parts of the agenda decribed above.

What do you think?

[Tiberius]

Radek, you're right that we need an administrative position, somebody who would tale care of polls, information summaries, etc. I don't think however that this should be done by the VP (but it could be, if the team decides so). The VP has more important things to do, IMHO.

You could be VP and FA. We need a good FA.

I'd be willing to do at least 75% of the things you've described: organizing things, keeping track of polls, summarizing informations and so forth. I was already preparing to post a thread for Legoland's government (but I was wainting for end of the nomination phase), a thread for the High Court, and so on. Maybe we should create an administrative position, describe it in the Constitution so the responsibilities would be clearly outlined and ... this is it. I think you've got the idea.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Tiberius
Ambassadors
Lux Invicta: none
Neu Demogyptica: none

3 candidates: Imtoops, Colonel Kraken, Spiffor.
[Ming_style]Work on it, guys! [/Ming_style]

I didn't know there were enough people for these posts. If they really want an ambassadorship, I'd gladly step back

[vondrack]

Originally posted by Tiberius
Radek, you're right that we need an administrative position, somebody who would tale care of polls, information summaries, etc. I don't think however that this should be done by the VP (but it could be, if the team decides so). The VP has more important things to do, IMHO.

Tibi, what kind of duties would you assign to a VP? I vaguely remember that we found no actual job for the position of VP some time ago and thus did not even bother to appoint/elect one. I believe that this might be it - maybe we could call the person a Chancellor instead of a VP. That would perhaps better reflect what the person would be doing...

Originally posted by Tiberius
You could be VP and FA. We need a good FA.

Well, theoretically, I could. But we have 17 members and I seriously doubt we would have so few interested in actively participating in the game. Grabbing more than one position, especially when speaking about positions likely to imply lots of work, does not seem appropriate to me. This should be a team effort.

I will do my best to propose ideas regarding all aspects of the game, including foreign affairs, and I will support whoever becomes the Foreign Minister as much as I will be able to. But ever since the Foreign Minister is not supposed to negotiate with other teams directly (unless an ambasaddor is unavailable) anyway, I believe we will always be able to discuss our approach here, giving the whole team (myself included) a chance to contribute.

Originally posted by Tiberius
I'd be willing to do at least 75% of the things you've described: organizing things, keeping track of polls, summarizing informations and so forth. I was already preparing to post a thread for Legoland's government (but I was wainting for end of the nomination phase), a thread for the High Court, and so on. Maybe we should create an administrative position, describe it in the Constitution so the responsibilities would be clearly outlined and ... this is it. I think you've got the idea.

I would be happy to share part of the VP/Chancellor duties with you and/or other members. What I had in mind in my previous post was that there should be someone responsible for getting these things done. If he does them himself or makes an arrangement with another member of the team, would be left to him.

[Tiberius]

We don't have any job for the VP, because the VP is already doing something: he is a minister (or so was he in the final Constitution draft) ! The title VP means only that he is the one who plays the game if the President is unavailable.

Creating a Chancellor or anything similiar that would do the things you've described, is fine for me. Moreover, if you want to fill in for this new position is also fine for me. However, beware, I might candidate!

If you have a clear idea what is the Chancellor suppose to do, do you mind posting it in the Constitution thread?

[vondrack]

Originally posted by Tiberius
We don't have any job for the VP, because the VP is already doing something: he is a minister (or so was he in the final Constitution draft) ! The title VP means only that he is the one who plays the game if the President is unavailable.

Creating a Chancellor or anything similiar that would do the things you've described, is fine for me. Moreover, if you want to fill in for this new position is also fine for me. However, beware, I might candidate!

Perhaps this is a good idea. VP would only back up the President in his turn-playing duties. In that case, VP could be one of the ministers (or the Chancellor), as his duties would be pretty limited.

Originally posted by Tiberius
If you have a clear idea what is the Chancellor suppose to do, do you mind posting it in the Constitution thread?

OK, I will, later today (sorry, lotsa work to do today). Basically, you could do it for me now, if you wish. Just take my lengthy post on this topic and make some nice description of the "maintain illustrated chronicles", "maintain poll summary", "maintain future strategy", and corresponding discussion threads. That's what I believe should be the core of Chancellor's duties.